Mayor Ivy Taylor listens as Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff speaks during a news conference on Monday, July 28, 2014, at the Municipal Plaza Building in San Antonio. Taylor called for $32 million the city had pledged to the VIA streetcar plan to be redirected to other city projects.

Mayor Ivy Taylor listens as Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff speaks...

SAN ANTONIO — Support for VIA Metropolitan Transit's downtown streetcar — a plan once heralded by the Commissioners Court and the City Council — collapsed Monday as newly appointed Mayor Ivy Taylor and Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff announced plans to effectively kill the project in the wake of rising political pressure to put it to a public vote.

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